The division plans officer up until the actual mobilization of elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) - which, in 2004-2005, would assume the Iraqi Army training and advisory mission - Lieutenant Colonel James DiRisio, after...

From 2003 through 2005, when the plan for using elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to train the new Iraqi Army was developed and executed, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock was its assistant division commander for operations....

The G3 for the 98th Division (Institutional Training) prior to his 2004-2005 Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment, Colonel Bradford Parsons, now retired, served in country as the advisor support team leader (AST) in support of the 5th Iraqi Army...

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Blaise Cornell-d'Echert was involved in the initial creation of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) in Iraq starting in July 2003. In this interview, he talks about how the initial structuring of the...

An Army reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Friedman served as the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team command and control cell's operations officer in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview,...

A reservist serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Antonio L. Morales was mobilized and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and 2005. Normally assigned as a schools officer with the...

From March through August 2004, Colonel Toby Hale led a team of five mobilized reservists serving under the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT) that was tasked with advising the commander and staff of the 3rd Brigade of the Iraqi...

A member of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) command and control (C2) cell, Brigadier General Frank Cipolla deployed to Iraq in mid 2004 in advance of the rest of the unit for its training and advisory mission with the new Iraqi Army. Of...

Brigadier General James Schwitters was the commanding general of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team from June 2004 to June 2005 when the 98th Division (Institutional Training) deployed to Iraq to assume the foreign army training and...

Colonel Jody Daniels, a reservist who served formerly with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq as a member of that division's survey team, and later became the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq joint staff...

From March to November 2004, Major Pete Fedak led a 10-man team that served as advisors to the 6th Battalion, Iraqi Army, training this unit from formation through its participation in Operation Phantom Fury (also known as Al Fajar), the November...

A member of the 10-man advisor support team attached to the 6th Battalion, Iraqi Army, Major Mike Sullivan provided advisory and training assistance to two rifle companies and the headquarters company from April to August 2004. Standing up this...

Serving as the intelligence advisor on a military transition team (MiTT) in Iraq from January 2005 through January 2006, Major David Longbine was involved in the teaching, coaching and mentoring of the 1st Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division's...

At the time of this interview the commander of 3rd Brigade, 98th Division (Institutional Training) - a Reserve unit headquartered in Rochester, New York - Colonel Lawrence J. Kelly played a key role in the 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advisory...

Major Scott Nauman was a member of one of the first military transition teams (MiTTs) in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon returning to Iraq from post-company command and mid-tour leave, Nauman filled a tasking in support of the Coalition Military...